Now I see the BIG picture!

To hell with my graduate degree, that yearlong thesis or even those annoyingly long certification exams... I am gonna completely revamp my resume.

For two hours my team was grappling along with this project issue. It was an intellectual debate to say the least, with each person giving his/her opinion with a humble intention of bringing in a few extra dollars for the organization. In comes my boss with a sheepish grin apologizing for the "small" delay. Exactly two minutes after proceedings, with an authoritative tone he was like, "see you have to look at the big picture, what we have is a chicken and egg problem and the way to handle this would be to think outside the box and set aggressive but achievable goals". All of us looked at him like we just achieved “nirvana”. He turns towards me and goes like, “Dude, now that there is clarity, would like the project proposal by my desk eod today” and walked back feeling rather satiated over his ability to rescue some hapless duds denied even an iota of this precious little thing called intelligence. Just as he left, there was a glimmer of hope; a faint voice from above (read as Dilbert) urged me to go ahead with the thought lingering in my mind.

My revised and edited resume replaced this rather innocuous mention about projects & thesis and replaced it with “ability to see the big picture by bringing every one on to the same page”; “ Handled projects by implementing methods in madness and taking regular temperature checks”.

Boy! I am a manager in the making!